OPIUM RECOVERED
SMUGGLERS’ DARING RAID
SIAMESE POLICE FRUSTRATED Rec 11 p.m. BANGKOK, Feb. 9. Two hundred horsemen of' a Yunan smuggling gang swept across the Siamese border into Masei recently in a daring raid to recover opium valued at £50.000 which the Siamese police were about to seize. The Yunan smugglers had delivered the opium, into a Siamese storehouse, but the Siamese buyers had not made payment f °When the smugglers heard that the Siamese Government party was on its way to confiscate the opium they mounted horses, and while one party drove the police out of the storehouse and engaged them in a running gun battle, another cleared the opium stock on to waiting horses. The party escaped, leaving one horseman killed. They took only the quantity of opium originally delivered, and did not touch the remaining stocks.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26692, 11 February 1948, Page 5
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